The first on-site sodium hypochlorite facility in Washington State in 1995 for Clark Public Utilities

The first iron and manganese facility in the United States to use manganese dioxide ore media. Since 1996, he has used this process on more than 100 drinking water supplies.

The first hydrous manganese oxide system in the State of Illinois, for the City of Batavia, to cost effectively remove radium from the city's groundwater.

The design and construction of the first two arsenic removal water treatment plants in the United States which used granular ferric hydroxide as an adsorbent. The plants are both located in the Los Angeles area and cost less than half the capital cost of other alternatives.

Mr. Odell is also the author of the book
Treatment Technologies for Groundwater,
published by American Water Works Association in 2010. Lee is also the Chair of the ASCE/EWRI Committee Drinking Water Supply Treatment and Distribution Engineering Committee.